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Cheery Chewy Cherry Oatmeal Cookies Recipe


Cheery Chewy Cherry Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
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A "big handful" cookie, coconut helps make them chewy. The flavour is easily switched up with different dried fruit to your taste. (Prep time includes dough chilling time.)

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Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 Tbsp pure almond extract
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (not instant)
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
  • 2/3 cup dried cherries (or cranberries, blueberries ...)
  • 1 cup roughly chopped semi-sweet chocolate (or chocolate chips ... try white chocolate chips!)

Directions
  1. Prehat oven to 350F.
  2. Beat butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy and pale in colour. Add egg and both extracts and mix together until incorporated.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix into batter along with oats, coconut, cherries and chocolate.
  4. Mix well to incorporate all ingredients evenly.
  5. * Chill batter for 1 hour.
  6. Using a small ice-cream scoop, scoop batter onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
  7. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  8. Makes 30 to 36 large cookies.

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Sounds heavenly! I love the ingredients.


Sounds really good, love chocolate and cherries together. The almond flavoring has to be the "icing on the cake" so to speak. You have my 5, thanks for sharing this one, have a great day.


A handful, and a mouthful to say...LOL
Say it 5 times real fast. Great recipe - thanks for sharing!


Oh my,looks like a hit to me. Happy as always to see you, my friend. ^5


Another recipe to add to my cookie collection, sounds great


This is almost like my husbands cookies he makes...but on a smaller scale. His makes a ton! Thanks! Wonderful!


Oh yeah, the hubby's gonna love this one...I will use the white chocolate with the dried cherries (and coconut...mmmmm, good) - sounds heavenly!


Pretty tasty. The flavor of the cherries really shines through!


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